Original Fables and Sketches

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This book seems to replicate internally another in the collection, dated to "1885?". The difference here is that the cover (and nothing else) identifies it as a school prize in Ontario. Also, the frontispiece illustration is lacking, as well as page 97-98. Researching this new copy led me to a publishers' circular from 1875 advertising the book in the "Leisure Hour" Library. That may be a better date for both copies. Let me modify my comments about the first copy. There are seventy-five moralistic tales here. They seem to be at least largely the same as the seventy-three tales I count in "Fables for the Young Folks" from the American Tract Society, which I have dated to "1900?" I did not find the selection that I read any more fetching this time than I did last! There are eighteen items in a second section "Tales and Sketches" beginning on 94. There are three full-page black-and-white illustrations here, none of them relating to the fables, as far as I can tell. They are on 96, 157, and 221.